Laptop Screen Too Bright During Night Sky Session?

If you do night sky observing or astrophotography, you learn that your eyes adapt to the night sky, but bright lights quickly thwart the vision. Using red lighting is suitable for seeing objects and retaining the night vision. Use a clear plexiglass sheet over a laptop screen to achieve a night-sky user friendly interface. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Planisphere, Star Atlas, Stellarium, Oh, My Stars!

Starting out viewing the night sky? This article briefly describes three items recommended for beginner astronomers (recent astronomy club presentation Navigating the Night Sky). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Sky Objects, Mostly Moon Shots

The pix in my YouTube collection are from having used mostly two point-and-shoot cameras. Incidentally, smart-phone cameras also have capabilities for taking similar sky pix.

For people who haven't considered photographing sky objects, look, up in the sky. It could be Supermoon! Build your own pic collection for day or night moons! Also, pick other sky objects that catch your fancy. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Astro Imaging Session Piques Three-item Topic

What arose when the sun set down at the dark site we went to? Dark skies and objects (constellations, star clusters, nebulae, ...) that don't show up well in light-pollution, densely populated areas. What three items am I talking about? A TV tray table, a transparent cookbook stand, and a thin, portable gaming monitor. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

April Fooling Easter Halloween and More

This year's convergence of April Fool's Day and Easter, with Burger King's 2005 Were-rabbit basket use for April 1/Easter and Halloween. "More" refers to tangential items. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Close Word Groupings for Pause

This article lists mostly pairs of words that can cause misunderstanding because of picking the incorrect word. Context helps with the correct word selection. The trade-off is a time slowdown to assess the situation. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Pizza Boxes Part 1

This article describes uses for pizza boxes besides containers for pizza, Bahtinov focusing masks as a large part of the article. It also lists some products that are called pizza boxes only because of shape characteristics. Read the entire article and comment there, please.